The lucky ones happy to be home

Law clerk Lisa Favaro, 27, of East Brunswick, was on her first trip to Bali, staying with three girlfriends in the Hotel Barong just around the corner from the Sari Club.

They were just heading for the clubs, when the blasts went off.

"We were blown back on to the beds in the hotel room," she said. "It was like an earthquake, the floor shook and flung us back on the beds.

"We'd gone to the Sari Club every night for the past week."

They headed for Kuta's beach, figuring it was the safest place.

"As soon as we got out of our hotel room, we saw the flames right above the hotel roof," Ms Favaro said. "Black soot was everywhere. We just saw shoes everywhere, a few bloody bodies where people had been cut." After the blasts the streets went quiet, she said, save for those riding around on motorbikes.

Yesterday, arriving in Melbourne on a Qantas flight, she described her fate as "very lucky".

David Tensek, a 19-year-old apprentice electrician from Altona, said there had been many injured people on the flight from Denpasar: "People on the plane were on drips. First class had nurses and injured people, people wrapped up."

He and his cousins had visited the Sari Club each night but because Mr Tensek had felt unwell on Saturday they decided to give it a miss.